Duke Johnson Quotes

I am the man who stands on the stage spinning plates on the top of poles. Every now and then the PM gives me another plate and I have to keep that going as well.

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

It's very hard to do that many things at the same time - having to dance and sing and be on a horse with a sword. It does get quite confusing.

I play the guitar, and I juggle.

To ride two horses at the same time is difficult.

It's difficult to wear such high Louboutins and also freestyle rap.

Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.

I'm a really good juggler.

I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that.

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

I think I probably tend to make life hard for myself by taking on too many things. I call it plate spinning.

I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

I'm a good juggler. If you want to court a woman, you need to be able to juggle five balls, fire, and knives.

I can juggle.

I really struggle to fight and say lines at the same time. It's hard.

I'm not thin, but I'm strong - plus my balance is such that I can navigate a flight of stairs with a basket of laundry and a stack of Pottery Barn catalogs, vaulting over cat-and-dog hurdles, never once spilling my coffee.

I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this 'now' moment where a superficial grace is so available.

I think maybe one reason why ventriloquists are looked down on is because it's very difficult to be funny. I think what happens is that people get a dummy, they learn the technique of ventriloquism, they memorize the script, they think they're in show business.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.

She can't even chew gum and walk in a straight line, let alone write a book.

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!